"Lana had left some time before. He feels out of place, and sad that Smallville is different, but Ma Kent points out that it is all part of growing up. Back in Metropolis, a factory explodes and Luthor's ""Guardians of the Sky"" men in exosuits arrive to stop it. Superman arrives, and notices that the exosuits forgot about a woman trapped inside. He saves the woman and puts out the fire single-handedly. Later, Luthor meets the woman whom Superman saved, Miss Vaughn, who is obsessed with Superman, for his own plans. Narrated by Lex Luthor, he considers his story to"
"Metropolis (comics) Metropolis is a fictional city appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, best known as the home of Superman. First appearing by name in ""Action Comics"" #16 (Sept. 1939), Metropolis is depicted as a prosperous and massive city in the Northeastern United States, within close proximity to Gotham City. The co-creator and original artist of Superman, Joe Shuster, modeled the Metropolis skyline after Toronto, where he was born and lived until he was ten. Since then, however, the look and feel of Metropolis has been greatly influenced by New York City. Within the DC Universe, Metropolis"
"the hero who lives in their 'sister' city. List of areas, landmarks, institutions and businesses of Metropolis Metropolis (comics) Metropolis is a fictional city appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, best known as the home of Superman. First appearing by name in ""Action Comics"" #16 (Sept. 1939), Metropolis is depicted as a prosperous and massive city in the Northeastern United States, within close proximity to Gotham City. The co-creator and original artist of Superman, Joe Shuster, modeled the Metropolis skyline after Toronto, where he was born and lived until he was ten. Since then, however, the look"
"is depicted as being one of the largest and wealthiest cities in the world, having a population of 11 million citizens. In addition to Superman, the city is also home to other superheroes, such as Booster Gold and Blue Beetle. Like many other fictional cities in DC Comics, the location of Metropolis has varied over the years but is usually portrayed as a major city in the Northeast, sharing various qualities with New York City. Superman co-creator Joe Shuster moved to Cleveland at age ten, where he met co-creator and Ohio native Jerry Siegel. Originally intending to sell the Superman"
"and is located at several Six Flags theme parks. The real town of Metropolis, Illinois, has been proclaimed the ""hometown of Superman"" by the Illinois State Legislature, and the town celebrates its ""local hero"" in every possible way that it can. Among the ways it celebrates the character include a large Superman statue in the city, a Superman museum, an annual Superman festival, and its local newspaper ""The Metropolis Planet"", a name inspired by the major newspaper in fictional Metropolis, ""The Daily Planet"". A version of the town has appeared in the comics itself, as a city whose citizens idolize"
"of the radio serial places this unnamed community in Iowa. It is named Smallville in ""Superboy"" #2 (June 1949). The 1978 Superman movie placed it in Kansas, as do most Superman stories since. ""New Adventures of Superboy"" #22 (Oct. 1981) places it in Maryland. In ""Action Comics"" #1 and most stories before 1986, Superman's powers begin developing in infancy. From 1944 to 1986, DC Comics regularly published stories of Superman's childhood and adolescent adventures, when he called himself ""Superboy"". In ""Man of Steel"" #1, Superman's powers emerged more slowly and he began his superhero career as an adult. The Kents"
"1981), with Smallville shown within driving distance of both cities (in post-Crisis comics, Smallville was officially relocated to Kansas). 1990's ""The Atlas of the DC Universe"" also places Metropolis in Delaware and Gotham City in New Jersey. However, the exact location of the two cities has varied. A map of the United States in the Secret Files & Origins Guide to the DC Universe 2000 depicts Metropolis and Gotham City (alongside Blüdhaven) as being somewhere in the Tri-state Area. In the TV series """", when Lois finds out about Superman's secret identity and yells at Clark about how he's been"
"strips to a Cleveland newspaper, they decided to set the stories there, but when the strips were re-used for the comic books, they changed the location to the fictional Metropolis. Shuster was quoted as having modeled his Metropolis cityscape on that of his hometown, Toronto, and in the early versions of Superman, Clark Kent worked for a newspaper called the ""Daily Star"", modeled after the real-life ""Toronto Star"". ""Action Comics"" #2, however, mistakenly portrays Clark Kent as a reporter for the ""Cleveland Evening News"". In ""Superman"" #2 (Fall 1939), Metropolis was actually placed in the U.S. state of New York,"
"Ohio, and Hawkman's Midway City was in Michigan. An earlier issue of DC's fanzine ""Amazing World of DC Comics"", however, stated that Metropolis was located in Delaware, while Gotham was placed in New Jersey. The 1990 ""Atlas of the DC Universe"" role playing game supplement, published by Mayfair Games, states that Metropolis is in Delaware. In June 1976, ""Superman"" #300 featured an out-of-canon story about the infant Kal-El arriving on Earth in that year, triggering an increase in Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. In that story's version of the year 2001, passing reference is"
"the life of the fictional superhero Superman - growing up as Superboy in the archetypal Smallville and as an adult moving to the equally archetypal Metropolis. The depiction of Ron Kovic's childhood in the early parts of ""Born on the Fourth of July"" also fits the cultural perceptions of ""Middle America"" (though Kovic's hometown, Massapequa, is physically located in Long Island). The same applies to the episode of Ayn Rand's novel ""The Fountainhead"" which is set in Clayton, Ohio and which depicts that town as the archetype of ""Middle America"", the polar opposite of the cosmopolitan New York City where"
"and additions to make updates to the original facility. Current services offered include ambulance, cardiac rehabilitation, cardiopulmonary, emergency department, imaging, laboratory, Massac Memorial Medical Clinic, rehabilitation services, sleep disorders center, specialty clinic, surgery, and transitional care. A Fresenius Medical Care dialysis center was constructed on the campus and opened in 2009. In his various portrayals, Superman resides in a fictional American city named Metropolis, and on January 21, 1972, DC Comics declared Metropolis the ""Hometown of Superman."" On June 9, 1972, the Illinois State Legislature passed Resolution 572 that confirmed this, declaring Metropolis the ""Hometown of Superman"". The city has"
"guard and threatens many citizens in order to get proper directions to Superman's Metropolis. Metropolis, Illinois Metropolis is a city located along the Ohio River in Massac County, Illinois, United States. It has a population of 6,465 according to the 2013 estimate of the United States Census Bureau. Metropolis is the county seat of Massac County and is part of the Paducah, KY-IL Micropolitan Statistical Area in Southern Illinois. Located on the Ohio River, the Metropolis area has been settled by many different peoples throughout history. For thousands of years, varying cultures of Native Americans populated the area. The most"
"Kryptonopolis Kryptonopolis is a fictional city in the DC Comics universe. Located on the planet Krypton, it is the birthplace of Superman. Kryptonopolis was the largest city on Krypton after the capital, Kandor. After Kandor was stolen by the alien criminal Brainiac, Kryptonopolis became the new capital. The history of the city is tied to the history of the El family, the ancestors of Superman, as the original layout was designed by Superman's ancestor, Gam-El. Kryptonopolis is also the home of Jor-El and Lara, the parents of Kal-El. When Jor-El's researches discover that Krypton is fated to explode, Jor-El constructs"
"2013, Hutchinson, Kansas officially changed its name to Smallville for a day, thanks to a campaign started by local residents Ben Eisiminger, KC Mcneely, and Christopher Wietrick. Smallville (comics) Smallville is a fictional town and the childhood and adolescent hometown of Superman in comic books published by DC Comics. Smallville is the setting of many ""Superboy"" comics, which depict the original Superboy (Superman as a boy) defending Smallville from various evils as well as, occasionally, the young Lex Luthor. Smallville is also the setting of the television series of the same name which similarly depicts the young Clark Kent. Smallville"
"secret pouch within his cape, though some stories have shown him leaving his clothes in some covert location (such as the ""Daily Planet"" storeroom) for later retrieval. In the Pre-Crisis Superman comic book, Clark appears in occasional back-up stories called ""The Private Life of Clark Kent"", wherein he solves problems subtly as Clark without changing into Superman. The feature was later shown in the ""Superman Family"" title. Adopted by Jonathan and Martha Kent from the Kansas town of Smallville, Clark (and thus Superman) was raised with the values of a typical rural American town, including attending the local Methodist Church"
"Smallville (comics) Smallville is a fictional town and the childhood and adolescent hometown of Superman in comic books published by DC Comics. Smallville is the setting of many ""Superboy"" comics, which depict the original Superboy (Superman as a boy) defending Smallville from various evils as well as, occasionally, the young Lex Luthor. Smallville is also the setting of the television series of the same name which similarly depicts the young Clark Kent. Smallville was first named in ""Superboy"" (volume 1) #2 in 1949. In the earliest Golden Age Superboy comics, the name of Clark Kent's hometown is uncertain. Earliest stories"
"Steals Our Hearts"" makes references to Superman, whose fictional hometown of Metropolis was partially modeled after Chicago (the town of Metropolis, Illinois has also capitalized on this association). Jessica Hopper of the ""Chicago Reader"" noted that Ray Middleton—who was the first actor to play the comic book superhero—was also born in Chicago. ""They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!"" makes references to ghost towns of Illinois. Stevens relates experiences from a summer camp he went to as a child in Michigan for ""The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get"
"made to the merging of the eastern seaboard cities from Boston to Washington D.C. into a ""newly incorporated urban center"" called ""Metropolis"". In his 1978 work, ""The Great Superman Book"", an encyclopedia of the first forty years of the Superman comics, author Michael Fleisher cites many, many examples which demonstrate that Metropolis equates with New York City. The most blatant of these might be the statement he cites from ""Action Comics"" #143 (April 1950), which states that the Statue of Liberty stands in ""Metropolis Harbor"". The Statue of Liberty, in fact, stands in New York Harbor. In the pre-""Crisis on"
"to artists, many of them coming from immigrant Jewish families in the Lower East Side and Brooklyn. It can be argued that superheroes, the uniquely American contribution to comic books, owe their origin to New York, despite the fact that the first superhero, Superman, was created by two artists from Cleveland, Ohio. Even when not based explicitly in New York, superhero stories often make use of recognizable stand-ins for the city, such as Metropolis or Gotham City (Gotham being a common nickname for New York). The form and narrative conventions of superhero stories frequently dictate New York-sized cities as the"
"making it the earliest specific reference to the location of Metropolis. In that issue, Clark Kent (Superman) sends a telegram to George Taylor, the editor of the ""Daily Star"" (the antecedent to the ""Daily Planet""), addressed to ""Metropolis, N.Y."" In the 1940s Superman cartoons, produced by Paramount Pictures and Fleischer Studios, Superman is said to live on the island of Manhattan. In the seventh cartoon of the series, ""Electric Earthquake,"" a Native American mad scientist claims that his people are the rightful owners of Manhattan, thus placing these cartoons on the island. In the fifth episode in the series, ""The"
"a newsboy when the ""Toronto Star"" was still called the ""Daily Star"". Shuster has claimed that Metropolis was visually inspired by Toronto. However, over the years, Metropolis has served as a fictional analogue to New York City. When Superman first appeared in comics (specifically 1938's ""Action Comics"" #1), his alter ego Clark Kent worked for a newspaper named the ""Daily Star"", under editor George Taylor. Superman co-creator Joe Shuster named the ""Daily Star"" after the ""Toronto Daily Star"" newspaper in Toronto, Ontario, which had been the newspaper that Shuster's parents received and for which Shuster had worked as a newsboy."
"Superman's Metropolis Superman's Metropolis is a DC Comics comic book and a Superman ""Elseworlds"" publication. It is the first part of a trilogy based on German Expressionist cinema, succeeded by """" and """". It was written by Jean-Marc Lofficier, Randy Lofficier and Roy Thomas and illustrated by Ted McKeever. The story of ""Superman's Metropolis"" is ""patterned"" after Fritz Lang's classic film ""Metropolis"", which had, in fact, been the inspiration for the city of the same name in the Superman canon. DC characters which appear in the story (in order of appearance): In an undetermined future, the giant city of Metropolis"
"a third persona as Kal-El. The first film is in three sections: Kal-El's infancy on Krypton (shot in London on the 007 stage), Clark Kent's teen years in Smallville, and Kent/Superman's adult life in Metropolis (shot in New York City). In earlier sections of the film, Reeve's Kent interacts with both his earthly parents and the spirit of his Kryptonian father through a special crystal, in a way George Reeves never did. The film has a fair amount of quasi-Biblical imagery suggestive of Superman as a sort of Christ-figure sent by Jor-El ""to show humans the way"". (See also Superman"
"with his powers fully emerging once he reaches his late teens. After Clark's high school graduation, the Kents tell Clark about his extraterrestrial origins, and Clark leaves Smallville to explore the outside world. After Clark moves to Metropolis, Jonathan and Martha help Clark to create a superhero identity. In the ""Man of Steel"" mini-series and afterwards, the Kents remain farmers through Clark's adult years, although a storyline features them having opened a general store in Smallville. Although Jonathan is still alive in the comics, he suffers a heart attack after ""The Death of Superman"" storyline, and he meets Clark in"
"somewhere in northeastern Pennsylvania or northern New Jersey, while incorporated into Metropolis proper at that time as a historical district. In revisions of the map published after 1986, this was retroactively removed to accommodate changes of Smallville's location in other titles, as detailed below. In the novel ""The Death and Life of Superman"" (1993), Jonathan and Martha Kent drive to Smallville from the Great Bend, Kansas, airport which would put Smallville somewhere in central Kansas. In ""Repo Man, part one"", Smallville is placed approximately 55 miles from Salina, Kansas, and in line with Junction City, giving it approximately the same"
"take on the secret identity Superman. The Kents die shortly after this conversation and Clark moves to Metropolis. In later chapters, Clark applies for a job at the Daily Planet, and is hired after delivering a story on a mining accident from which Superman rescues Lois Lane. The 1950s TV series ""Adventures of Superman"" explored Superman's origin in the first episode, titled ""Superman on Earth."" The destruction of Krypton and Clark's upbringing by the Kents are largely identical to the version presented in the 1948 film serial. In this version, Clark decides to move to Metropolis after Eben dies. He"
"Jordan's driver's license in the comic shows his address as ""72 Faxcol Dr Gotham City, NJ 12345"". The 2016 film ""Suicide Squad"" reveals Gotham City to be in the state of New Jersey within the DC Extended Universe. Gotham City is the home of Batman, just as Metropolis is home to Superman, and the two heroes often work together in both cities. In comic book depictions, the exact distance between Gotham and Metropolis has varied over the years, with the cities usually being within driving distance of each other. In more recent decades, the two cities are often portrayed as"
"of Metropolis, ending a national guessing game about which city Superboy would call his new home. For Clark's first two years at Metropolis University, Lana is also a classmate, before she transfers to Hudson University. In his junior year, Superboy again feels helpless when he isn't present to stop an automobile accident involving Ducky, caused by his own drunk driving. Ducky is paralyzed for life and thereafter uses a wheelchair. Ducky's place in the dorm is taken by Billy Kramer, a Smallville boy whom Clark befriends and decides to trust with his secret. Much as Superman would later do for"
"as well as recurring guests that take part in mini story arcs that span a portion of a season. Occasionally, the recurring guest storylines will span multiple seasons. The plot follows a young Clark Kent, in the fictional town of Smallville, Kansas, as he journeys toward becoming Superman. Additionally, the series chronicles Lex Luthor's path to the dark side, and his metamorphosis from Clark's best friend to greatest enemy. ""Smallville"" depicts the relationship between Clark and his first love interest, Lana Lang, as well as his relationship with Lois Lane, the woman he ultimately marries in the comic books. The"
"and wrecked several pieces at the museum. The Superman Museum, like the Flash Museum, is also usually shown as existing well into the Legion of Super-Heroes' era, as shown in various stories and the 2000s television series ""Legion of Super Heroes"". The central branch of S.T.A.R. Labs, a major scientific research institution, is also located in Metropolis. The Metropolis Museum of Natural History was featured in the film ""Superman Returns"". Metropolis University, Clark Kent's alma mater, is located in the city of Metropolis; Clark graduated with a degree in journalism. The college has a floating aquarium anchored just offshore called"
"that the story relates to another Kal-L counterpart in the pre-""Crisis"" infinite multiverse, rather than to the actual Earth-Two Superman. However, in ""Superman Family"" #207 (May/June 1981), Kal-L tells Lois about having met Superboy, suggesting the above story did occur as written. Kal-L began fighting evil on a local level in his base of operations, the American city of Metropolis. Later in his career he would consider first the entire United States and then the whole world under his protection. In November 1940 Superman became a founding member of the Justice Society of America. Like Batman, he was referred to"
"the weekend. The local newspaper is named ""The Metropolis Planet"", inspired by ""The Daily Planet"", the fictional paper in the Superman comics and other Superman media. The real town of Metropolis is portrayed in one Superman comic-book story, ""Superman #92"", in a story titled ""Massacre in Metropolis!"" (which is continued into ""Adventures of Superman #515""), as a town whose citizens idolize what is to them the real-life Man of Steel. A villain named Massacre arrives in the town, having gotten lost and thinking he was in the ""other"" Metropolis, the large city where Superman actually lives. He attacks a security"
"published in 1976 and partly set in then-futuristic 2001, ""Metropolis"" is the name of the new megalopolis of the Eastern seaboard corridor, comprising the cities of Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York and Boston and all the territory in between (""Superman"" vol. 1, #300, June 1976). Whatever version was used, it was generally viewed as given that the original city, as well as Gotham City, were considered within Legion-era Metropolis' boundaries, from the mid-1960s until the events of ""Zero Hour"". The first post-""Infinite Crisis"" version of the series as published in the edition has described Metropolis as having expanded over the"